A fellow might just as well stay here and run every time the bell rings.
— from Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

The sea heaved and rocked even there; the torn clouds went hurrying overhead in a wild tumultuous manner.
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"It's this way," continued Vane, somewhat awkwardly, "you see—of course, as you say, she is my sister in a way, but she has absolutely refused everything that the governor and I have offered her.
— from The Missionary by George Chetwynd Griffith

And upon Saint Matthew speaking of Judas , he had not (saith he) any respect either to the remembrance of their common table, or to salt or bread which we did eat together.
— from A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall by Blaise de Vigenère

He rushed into the street, his automatic ready, eyed the taxicab speculatively, wheeled suddenly, and ran south at a dog-trot.
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

The sugar made from trees was gradually superseded by cane and beet productions; and the supply has always remained equal to the demand at moderate prices; and not until 1887 did the country discover the necessity of a “Sugar Trust” to control and regulate the trade of the United States.
— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones